Nature’s not our enemy, it’s our sustenance; and we need it – and we need nature healthy for us to be healthy and to survive long term.

I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.

The task of physics is not to find out how nature is. It is to construct theories of nature that will help us to explain what we observe.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop.

When you get older, you mature, and you start liking flowers. Although I try and keep it manly.

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

And the thorny crown of this sad conception was that she whom he really did prefer in a cursory way to the rest, she who knew herself to be more impassioned in nature, cleverer, more beautiful than they, was in the eyes of propriety far less worthy of him than the homelier ones whom he ignored

Nature does not often say “See!” to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply “Here!” to a body’s cry of “Where?

We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed – a knife – a purse – and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature.

It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin

It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go afishing. He brings virginal emotions and unsatiated eyes to the sparkling freshness of earth and stream and sky

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable

What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one, – and that is not only true, but identical, – that men always act from self-interest

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate

Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature, – endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity

Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.

Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

Since the survival impulse in nature is transmuted into two different and contradictory spiritualized forms, which we may briefly designate as the will-to-live-truly and the will-to-power, man is at variance with himself. The power of the second impulse places him more fundamentally in conflict with his fellowman than democratic liberalism realizes.

For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame

Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man’s nature, because it is against man’s right reason.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

Power is of an encroaching nature.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.”

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it

But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.

The desire to do it was strong, but stronger still was the imperative command of his nature not to do it. In spite of himself he was still faithful to Love. The old days of license and easy living were gone. He could not bring them back, nor could he go back to them, He was changed – how changed he had not realized until now.

At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.”

However, he was happy. He felt he was conquering nature. He laughed aloud. He felt he was stronger than the elements. In this type of weather animals hid in their holes and did not come out. He was out, fighting the elements. He was a man, master of the world.

All I wanted,′ London said later, ’was a quiet place in the counry to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don’t know it.

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

“According to Max Planck, ‘Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.’ And he continued: ‘Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”

The kind of attention we bring to bear on the world changes the nature of the world we attend to, the very nature of the world in which those ‘functions’ would be carried out, and in which those ‘things’ would exist.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

No man can be intellectually insulted. Insult, in its very nature, is emotional.

The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature

I’m still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man

He couldn’t fake being their kind. The masquerade would fail, and besides, masquerade was foreign to his nature. There was no room in him for sham or artifice. Whatever happened, he must be real. He.

The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

I’m a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I’m not a natural negotiator. But I’ve learned to negotiate

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you’ve done.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life

Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.

I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I’m not that nice a guy.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved

There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man’s needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet

While growing up, I used to go to the beach, as I used to find peace there.

There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered..d

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing

Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly recognized by all:-For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it; and to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it

Human nature is not of itself vicious

In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.

But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ’tis time to part

Man must go back to nature for information

The true function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-pencilling the bad spelling of God.

One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

One cannot be romantic about human nature; one cannot be romantic about one’s own nature.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

I stood there with only the weapons and the powers that Nature had endowed me with – hands, feet, and teeth.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.

What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.

I love romantic comedies. They’re for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There’s nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That’s not second nature to me, thank God.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it

For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men at a distance.

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Nature doesn’t ask your permission; it doesn’t care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You’re obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl’s wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house.

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance, also the lives of men

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too

I don’t see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don’t see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

Consciousness is nature’s nightmare.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous — even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Nature rarer uses yellow Than another hue; Saves she all of that for sunsets – Prodigal of blue.

Nature is a Haunted House – but Art – a House that tries to be haunted.

I am, by nature, a guitar player… I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.

Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

The closer you come to Jesus, the more faulty you will appear in your own eyes; for your vision will be clearer, and your imperfections will be seen in broad and distinct contrast to His perfect nature.

The things of nature are the Lord’s silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.

The law of nature cannot allow all human beings to think together. In breaking the two-hour barrier, I want to open minds to think that no human is limited.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful – or not, as the case may be – has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain.

Nature is the great ocean of intelligence in which we are bathed.

The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease.

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.

I’m trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.

We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. She’s always got better imagination than we have.

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won’t understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

Nature is neutral. It will respond to your thoughts and feelings, both positive and negative. You attract to yourself exactly what you are and feel inside.

Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.

Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it’s a wonderful problem, because it doesn’t look so easy.

People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.

This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?

Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.